Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Sines, Joseph 1779 - 1878
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Joseph Sines (deceased) was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August
2, 1779, and was a son of John and Barbara Sines, both natives of Germany, who
lived in Pennsylvania. Joseph was married in Pennsylvania to Mary Ann Griffith,
who was born in that state in 1802. They emigrated to Ohio in 1834, and in 1838
to Fountain county, Indiana, and settled on Scott's prairie. In 1840 he bought
240 acres of school section 16, in Mill Creek township, and this he settled and
improved. He died August 29, 1878. He was a whig and republican, and was
township trustee several terms. His wife died in 1874, and both were members of
the United Brethren church for many years. They had a family of nine children:
Richard G. and John (born in Pennsylvania), Anna C, James G., Joseph (deceased),
Mary A. and Samuel (born in Ohio), and George F. and Melinda G., natives of
Fountain county, Indiana. Samuel served three years in the civil war, in Co. B,
25th Ill. Inf. He was orderly sergeant, and fought at Stone River, Chattanooga,
and on to Atlanta, where he was discharged. George F. was born September 26,
1840, and was raised on the farm. He was married October 6, 1861, to Catharine
Rayphole. She was born in Ross county, Ohio, March 16, 1843, and came with her
parents to Fountain county in 1859. Mr. Sines rented a part of the home-place.
He enlisted September 2, 1862, in Co. H, 63d Ind. Vol. Inf., and served three
years. He participated at Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Burnt Hickory, Pumpkin Vine
Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, and Atlanta, where he was wounded in the
right hip. He was taken to the Knoxville hospital, then sent home. In six months
he rejoined his regiment at Fort Fisher, and fought at Fort Annison and
Wilmington. At the close of the war he returned to the farm. In 1867, somewhat
assisted, he bought eighty acres of land. He now has 240 acres, as well as 20
acres of the old homestead. He is a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Sines have seven
children: Caroline. Barbara A., Samuel C, Sylvester B., Joseph G., Mary A. and
Clara.

Additional Comments:

Mill Creek Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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